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Building with models in production: retrieval, agents, guardrails, and above all how you prove the system works.

  1. A customer asks how you know your AI system works. Answer them.

    Difficulty 3 of 5

  2. How do you choose a chunking strategy for contracts compared with support tickets?

    Difficulty 3 of 5

  3. How do you make an assistant cite its sources, and how do you check the citations are real?

    Difficulty 3 of 5

  4. Retrieval finds the right document in the top twenty but not the top three. What do you do?

    Difficulty 3 of 5

  5. When would you fine-tune, when would you use retrieval, and when is prompting enough? Use a real example.

    Difficulty 3 of 5

  6. A support agent reads customer emails and can issue refunds. How do you defend it against prompt injection?

    Difficulty 4 of 5

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